A revision of the deltocephaline leafhopper genus Scaphoideus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from the Indian subcontinent
Author
Viraktamath, C. A.
Author
Mohan, G. S.
text
Zootaxa
2004
578
1
48
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.169102
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169102
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Scaphoideus sabourensis
Rao and Ramakrishnan
Figs 160–170
.
Scaphoideus sabourensis
Rao and Ramakrishnan, 1988
: 71
–72.
HOLOTYPE
ɗ,
INDIA
[NPC, examined]
Coloration and structure as described by
Rao and Ramakrishnan (1988)
and similar to that of
S. coloratus
.
Head shorter than interocular distance, anteriorly obtusely rounded.
Male genitalia
: Dorsal margin of pygophore with a stout spine, caudal lobe ventrally produced into a short blunt process. Tenth segment sclerotized. Subgenital plate elongate, triangular, with bluntly rounded apex, marginal setae stout, long. Style with welldeveloped preapical lobe, apophysis slender, elongate, slightly curved laterally with ventral area pustulate. Connective with stem short, slender, arms divergent, paraphyses long, twisted, divergent at caudal apex. Aedeagus compressed, Vshaped, shaft broader at base, slightly narrowed at apex in lateral aspect, dorsal apodeme welldeveloped, 0.80 as long as shaft, gonopore subapical.
Female genitalia
:
Hind
margin of seventh sternum sinuate.
Measurements
: Male
4.20 mm
long, and
1.15 mm
wide across eyes. Female
4.50 mm
long and
1.20 mm
wide across eyes.
Material examined
:
INDIA
:
Holotype
ɗ, Bihar: Sabour,
Oct. 1965
, light, S.N. Prasad (
NPC
).
Other material
examined: Maharashtra: 1ɗ, 1Ψ, Matheran,
915 m
,
23.xi.1977
, C.A. Viraktamath; Karnataka: 1ɗ, 25 Km S Shimoga,
26.xi.1982
, H.V.A. Murthy; 3ɗ, Jog Falls,
16.xi.1976
, B. Mallik and C.A. Viraktamath; West Bengal: 1ɗ, 1Ψ, Paresnath.
4400 ft
(
1335 m
),
11.iv.1909
, Annandale, Ind. Mus. Distant Coll. B.M. 1911383; 2Ψ, same data but collected on
12.iv.1909
at heights of
4000–4400 ft
(
1213–1335 m
); 1Ψ, Kurseong,
5000 ft
(
1517 m
), E. Himalayas,
5.vii.1908
, N. Annandale, Ind. Mus. Distant Coll. B.M. 1911–383 (
BMNH
,
UAS
).
Remarks
:
S. sabourensis
resembles
S. asymmetricus
but differs in having a stouter and longer aedeagal shaft that lacks lateral processes.